wet day, got tinkering.........

[Martin]

dug an old car amp out of the shed, connected to speakers........plugged the laptop into the amp.........wahey! - no more putting up with headphones, bags of bass,. internet radio here I come...............
Found one particularly good station in Ghana - http://www.cocoradio.com/ - been listening for 3 hours to a rock-steady, very high quality stream.........I've found it an excellent way to alleviate the winter glums! (forget laptop speakers, go for the bass.....)

[Annpan]

McAfee Security thingumygig told me it was an unsafe site... looked good too.

Glad to hear you've got thumping base to listen too your reggae tunes on, man.

[Martin]

Mc Afee is dreadful! A decent antivirus software wouldn't give that problem (ditch Mc Afee, and grab the free version of AVG) - you may well find that you won't continue getting unnecessary "unsafe" warnings, and you may also considerably speed your computer up too!
Coco Radio works really well! Mind you, ghanaian fades are rather non-existant - it sort of lurches from track to track!
Having had the choice of tiny laptop speakers, or a pair of aged headphones to listen on, it's a revelation! There is no way you can listen to that sort of music without a hefty bit of bass........it's only a £5 bootsale bargain car amp -unbranded and very tatty - but teamed with a stereo "boof box"
(2 x10" speakers, and 2 electrostatic horns - another £5 boot sale buy) it sounds great! (and saved lashing out for pukka computer speaker systems) - at present running off a solar-charged gel battery!
Took very little fettling to get it sounding bang on - in Ubuntu, it's just a mouse click to add a very effective "loudness bass boost"................

[mrsflibble]

yay!!!

this is my old stereo set up...




my 'new' one came from a communal bin at our old flat

[Martin]

excellent!
(your amp is a lot posher than mine!)

[mrsflibble]

that version was so popular when it got given to my brother in law that my other brother in law wanted one so jim had to dig out the other car amp from his dad's loft. little bodging busy beaver is my hubby